Bargain Advocate: Frugal laundry, Volume II: Airing my dirty laundry

1:06 PM,
May 16, 2013

Written by

Abbey Roy
CentralOhio.com columnist

After recovering from the Fels-Naptha debacle I recounted in last week's column - OK, not quite a debacle, just a bit of a sore elbow - I was ready to put my frugal laundry detergent to the test.

I thought about setting up a highly scientific experiment, with a control (baby outfit with stain) and a variable (standard detergent versus homemade) and all that, but I was too anxious to get started. Also, the idea of intentionally staining articles of clothing with something, whatever that thing was, seemed somehow wrong to me.

So I promptly threw in a load of laundry that happened to be sitting around, ...